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Swim and Dive's Oumy Diop Completes Olympic Debut in 100-meter Butterfly Saturday

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MIAMI – Oumy Diop of the FIU women's swimming and diving program posted a time of 1:01.82 in the 100-meter butterfly at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Saturday. She posted the highest finish for a Senegalese female swimmer in the 100-butterfly at the summer games.

Diop, competing in her first Olympics representing Senegal, swam in Heat 1 of the women's 100-fly and placed fourth among the group. Overall, Diop placed 27th among 32 contestants in the women's 100-fly and was the second highest finisher of all participants from the continent of Africa.